Ramallah – Saba:
The Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed today, Tuesday, that the Israeli occupation authorities have systematically transformed a number of large settlement outposts surrounding the “Eli” settlement—built on Palestinian lands in the villages of Al-Sawiya, Al-Lubban, and Qaryut—into large neighborhoods annexed to the settlement.
The head of the commission, Moayad Shaaban, stated that in recent weeks the occupation authorities approved a series of major master plans aimed at massive expansions of the “Eli” settlement to complete plans to separate the central West Bank from its north through a settlement bloc stretching between the “Shilo” and “Eli” settlements and the surrounding outposts, in the area between the Ramallah and Nablus governorates.
Shaaban explained that in July, the occupation authorities filed a master plan for the settlement to build 50 new housing units over 8.6 dunums, with the plan spread over non-contiguous parcels of land within the settlement’s area.
He added that in recent days, the occupation approved two major plans: the first covering 638 dunums to build 650 new housing units aimed at formalizing the status of a large settlement outpost east of “Eli,” and the second covering 383 dunums to construct 347 new housing units to formalize the “Hayovel Harim” outpost and convert it into a neighborhood of the settlement, granting it all the privileges the occupation government allocates to settlement projects that seize Palestinian land.
The head of the commission stressed that the Israeli occupation is determined to impose new realities on Palestinian geography that will fragment Palestinian territory and create an enclave system, eliminating any possibility of establishing a future Palestinian state.
He emphasized that what the occupation is doing on the ground constitutes grave violations of basic human rights, not only infringing upon the inalienable rights and resources of the Palestinian people but also openly defying international resolutions, UN decisions, and established legal positions on the matter.
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